12:21 PM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Loncor Gold ( LONCF ) on Friday said it closed a best-efforts private placement that raised C$9.4 million, including the full exercise of the agent's option for gross proceeds of C$1.4 million. The company said it sold around 17.1-million share units priced at C$0.55 each. Each unit is made up of a share...

12:19 PM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) was cleared to adopt Facebook and Instagram user posts to train artificial intelligence models after a German consumer rights group failed to win a court injunction to stop the practice, Reuters reported Friday. The court in the western city of Cologne denied the request from Verbraucherzentrale NRW, a...

LONDON (Reuters) -Harvard University's bonds, which are part of the Ivy League school's $8.2 billion debt pile, struggled on Friday amid an increasingly fraught standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration. The university sued the administration over a move on Thursday to revoke its ability to enrol lucrative foreign students. Its bond prices have been falling sharply since March when...

12:15 PM EDT, 05/23/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Nippon Steel's talks with the US government over its planned acquisition of US Steel (X) are in the final stage, Nikkei Asia reported Friday, citing Nippon Steel President Tadashi Imai. Imai said that they are now waiting for US President Donald Trump's final decision on the deal, according to the report. He expressed...